The funding for the Calexico project was obtained in FY2017 and construction began in February.

Trump praised the $1.6 billion funding in the Omnibus spending bill for more bollard fencing as a “downpayment” of his promised wall on the southern border, even though it specifically bars spending for structures that look like the wall prototypes in San Diego.

“You saw the pictures yesterday. I said, what a thing of beauty,” he said. “And on September 28th we go further and we’re getting that sucker built.”